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O-SHOW! ARTICLE & PHOTOS BY: JIN TIAN ACTON

Spencer Lin (2020) Nishanth Mankame (2022) The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SACE) discusses their organization with one of the prospective freshman.

Virginia Tech’s annual O-show offers freshmen majoring in engineering a chance to get a better feel of what they’re interested in within the engineering curriculum. Booths are lined up in Goodwin Hall filling the hallways with different clubs, organizations, and companies hoping to attract interest. Not only does this give the freshmen a way to network and get involved in extracurriculars, but it also shows them exactly how many different opportunities VT offers. There were many different tables, all featuring very different companies looking to recruit. According to Huy Nguyen, the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SACE) are interested in “anyone [who’s interested in] engineering or science! Anyone

who feels like they don’t know where to go is welcome, because SACE is about giving people a sense of community!” Marybeth Ramey, graduating 2019 spoke on behalf of the International Society of Automation (ISE): they are interested in “whoever has an interest in automation and would like to pursue an education that they might not get in a classroom.” Despite the craze of everything, everyone seemed to enjoy the show. Sophie Bosse, graduating 2022),described it as, “really informative and cool to look around and see all of the different things”

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